Panic as Julius Berger ruptures gas pipeline on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
• Julius Berger should be punished, says NEMA
Chukwudi Akasike, Samson Folarin, Deji Lambo, Okechukwu Nnodim and Daud Olatunji
Residents of Arepo and Magboro in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, as well as motorists and commuters, were in panic on Wednesday after a gas pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was ruptured by employees of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, who were working on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The incident occurred around 9.30am in front of
PUNCH Place, headquarters of Punch Nigeria Limited in, Magboro, Ogun State.
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South-West Zonal Coordinator, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Raheem Mohammed, has expressed hope that the HIV/AIDS scourge would be overcome by 2030.
Speaking at the familiarisation visit to the Oyo State Agency for the Control of AIDS (OYSACA), on Thursday, he said that the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-3) was designed to end the epidemic by 2030 adding that Nigeria is also working vigorously towards achieving this goal.
He stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has been wonderful in making sure that HIV/AIDS become a thing of the past through various activities embarked upon by the government to fight the scourge.